Job Description

Job Location: ​Parsippany​

Company description

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000  dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

About the Role:

Are you passionate about shaping the future of category management? As the Category Capability Analyst, you’ll play a pivotal role in building our category management center of excellence, driving innovation and streamlined processes that empower our team to excel. From supporting the development of technical capabilities to standardizing best practices, you’ll be instrumental in enhancing our team’s impact. As the Category Capability Analyst, you’ll drive key selling initiatives and measure the success of our category strategies, making a tangible impact on our organization and the marketplace. 

This position is hybrid and based in our U.S. headquarters in Parsippany, NJ. This role reports into the Category Management Capabilities Manager.

Main Responsibilities:

• Develop a strong understanding of JDA Space Planning to provide planogram recommendations and analyses across channels
• Maintain the planogram database and reporting to support internal and field sales
• Support the standardized space and assortment planning process for consulting with key customers
• Support our planogram compliance process, integrating HQ and Field personnel into the space planning effort
• Coordinate big data integration with category management data sources
• Support and maintain “Category to Customer” tools to enable the field category management team to customize national category growth strategies for their accounts
• Coordinate category management technology needs with the commercial IT function
• Maintain the category management training curriculum
• Work cross-functionally with sales and marketing teams on shopper insights and consumer research
• Enable field sales teams to meet Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by providing selling story materials and additional account support
• Develop and maintain a positive, productive relationship with trade marketing, field sales, and brand team stakeholders
• Support a high achieving Category Management team capable of sustaining the company’s profitability, goals, and vision
• Take on a subject matter expert role for key data tools (i.e. assortment, IRI, loyalty data, etc.) to help assist other team members

Who we are looking for:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the position 
• 1+ years’ analytics or data management experience in a food/beverage, consumer products, logistics, or manufacturing industry
• Syndicated data experience (IRI or Nielsen) where you've pulled your own data
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex sets of data and make business recommendations based on analysis
• Must possess a basic knowledge of project/program management concepts, practices and procedures
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to build consensus and foster positive relationships
• Capacity to solve problems through creative, innovative solutions and challenge traditional methods of accomplishing tasks and removing obstacles
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization and in a variety of cultures
• Ability to creatively organize and present data in Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong organization and problem solving skills
• Ability to convince, influence, and motivate all levels within the business to achieve objectives

How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:

Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world. 

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Diversity Statement

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

Ferrero N.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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